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Wedging & Pottery
Centering the Clay in Pottery
Making a Platter in Pottery
Flattening Clay in Pottery
Compressing Clay in Pottery
The Pull Up Technique for Pottery
The Pulling Technique in Pottery
Forming & Defining in Pottery
Forming a Rim in Pottery
Making a Spiral in Pottery
Using a Pin Tool in Pottery
Shrinking Clay in Pottery
Timing & Pottery
Finishing Skills in Pottery
The Off Center Technique in Pottery
Applying an Off Center Slip in Pottery
Carving & Pottery
Using a Lopp Tool in Pottery
Letting Pottery Set
Effects of Gas Kilns on Pottery
Glazes for Pottery
Summary: Get your potter's wheel ready! Learn how to form a rim with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.
David D. Gibson has a BFA in Ceramics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and has done post-graduate study in Ceramics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is and...read more
"DAVID GIBSON: In this clip we're going to use a little bit bigger of a rib to smooth the edge of our rim here--to form our rim. Gonna go ahead and lay that down-actually I'll flip it this way way. And we're going to take some of the slurry off of here. Really get in to that corner that we made and start to lay our rim down. So really pushing down here and starting to let it come down. It's-we're going to not do too much here we want it to set up a little bit. We don't want to push it too far. Again, compress our lip here. I think I gotta--here we go. Compressing our edge, maybe come back in with our wooden rib, kidney rib here and we can really form, make a nice spiral here on the inside of our platter."
eHow Article: Forming a Rim in Pottery
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